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Princeton's WordNet

  1. blink, eye blink, blinking, wink, winking, nictitation, nictationadjective

    a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly

  2. blinking, winkingadjective

    closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly

    "he stood blinking in the bright sunlight"

  3. bally(a), blinking(a), bloody(a), blooming(a), crashing(a), flaming(a), fucking(a)adjective

    informal intensifiers

    "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"

Wiktionary

  1. blinkingadjective

    That or who blinks or blink.

    a blinking light

  2. blinkingadjective

    (British euphemistic slang) Bloody (in the coarse slang sense)

Wikipedia

  1. Blinking

    Blinking is a bodily function; it is a semi-autonomic rapid closing of the eyelid. A single blink is determined by the forceful closing of the eyelid or inactivation of the levator palpebrae superioris and the activation of the palpebral portion of the orbicularis oculi, not the full open and close. It is an essential function of the eye that helps spread tears across and remove irritants from the surface of the cornea and conjunctiva. Blinking may have other functions since it occurs more often than necessary just to keep the eye lubricated. Researchers think blinking may help with disengagement of attention; following blink onset, cortical activity decreases in the dorsal network and increases in the default-mode network, associated with internal processing. Blink speed can be affected by elements such as fatigue, eye injury, medication, and disease. The blinking rate is determined by the "blinking center", but it can also be affected by external stimulus. Some animals, such as tortoises and hamsters, blink their eyes independently of each other. Humans use winking, the blinking of only one eye, as a form of body language.

ChatGPT

  1. blinking

    Blinking refers to the rapid and repetitive closing and opening of one's eyes.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Blinking

    of Blink

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Blinking

    Brief closing of the eyelids by involuntary normal periodic closing, as a protective measure, or by voluntary action.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of blinking in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of blinking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of blinking in a Sentence

  1. Dan Coats:

    The warning signs are there, the system is blinking. It is why I believe we are at a critical point. Today, the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack.

  2. John Breen:

    Without anyone blinking an eye ... it became a state rite.

  3. Dick Gregory:

    Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

  4. George Eliot:

    Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

  5. Jannique Martinez:

    We noticed a little erratic behavior like these blinking lights that are on a sensor. When my family or any other family leaves or returns to their homes, they all start to blink, when the sensors are activated, loud music begins to play. He switches the music based on the family that is activating the music.

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